April 22, 2025 • 14 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Chapter eight On to Monterey.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
August twenty fifth, eighteen forty three, Utah Territory, Red yellow
blue cliffs rise up on all sides, sunset fierce barbaric hospital.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
The man is Captain John Fremont. The government wants a
root survey that will connect the United States with the
Oregon Country. Fremont is the man for the job. Four
months ago he left Kansas. He is west of the
Rocky Mountains. Now fifteen men with him, one howitzer gun
(00:49):
and a hunter named Corson.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
You're working on that diary, Kevin. Yes, I'll lead these
notes and I get back to Washington.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I sort of keep thinking about Broken Hand. Fitzback, He's
all right, Card, Maybe we should have all stayed together.
By the time we get to the Oregon Country, Broken
Hand will be there waiting for us. You'll most likely
get the Fort Hall before we do. That was no coyote, Captain, Indians, Dunson,
(01:18):
what is it?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I ain't sure, sir. You see something. I just ain't sure,
Captain free Mon. I'll take a look around, Captain, I
get some sleep.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Indians won't attack if they know we're on the watch
for them.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
September eight, one week south of soda springs, searching for
the great Salt Lake. Something else, something I can't even
talk to Carson about.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Not yet.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Our final destination should be the Columbia River. The job
will be done yet, I know I must go on
from there. Well, yeah, that can wait.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Our parties even smaller. I've sent some men on the
fort Hall for supplies. The rest of us are in marshlands,
surrounded by mountains.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Real solely around here, Kevin.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yeah, I'm breathing it. I feel in my stomach, which
you're kind of thirsty. Hey, guys, and your face is
covered with dogs.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
You've been away it off.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Marshlands glisten with soft We've written the higher ground.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
An ocean, an ocean in the middle of the desert,
all the way to the horizon, further than you can
see Soft Lake. Hey them, Milin's out there, hook at
the jungle.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Life you reckon anything lives on annimals.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Carson, Somemow will take the rubber boat out. We'll explore
the lad Yeah, it's a real good thing.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
There's only four of us in this here boat. Huh.
It sprung half a dozen leagues, Garson, something wrong?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Can the island you see anything on coust't take these glasses.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Have a look.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
A them.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I don't see nothing but a rock, No trees, no
nothing at all, just bearing rock, nothing but rock.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Have to free up with chicken water. Sure, I can't
start bailing. I expected to see so much on that island.
Keep bailing on. This boat's gonna see all right.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Now, come on, we're almost shallow water. Now we'll be
aving the way to shore.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Real wrong out here at Capitol, guys in ours are
most likely the first human voice is to break the
silence of the siland in a.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Million years it won't surprise me.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, I'll just stay here the night until we can't
touch the boat out.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Oh yeah, I won't have to bother none about Indians Tonight.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
In the morning, I can draw a map of the
lake that I can see of it from here, and
we'll push on the Port Hall September fifteenth, Oregon Trail.
(04:52):
The men I sent on the Fort Hall of Return brokenhand.
Fitzpatrick is with.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Him, Captain, my boy, we couldn't bring much food. You
don't a scarce commodity up at Port Hall.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
How's that?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Well, it's the settler's moving into the Oregon country just
about cleaning up.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
All the food at the fort. Hey, I reckon we
can get enough to see us to the Columbia River.
Broken hands. It's quite a problem.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Kit.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Well, we don't all have to go to the Columbia.
I think we can send some of the men home.
As a matter of fact, October twenty eighth, they camp
beside the Dallas of the Columbia River.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Rock walls, overlook, deep dark whirlpools.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
No sound, no foam, no ribons.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Inaccurate map has been charted from Kansas to the Oregon Country. Still,
the dream I've had for many weeks stays with me,
the great unknown country to the solid year.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
What are you thinking about, cap?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I was thinking of somewhere in the Sierra Nevada, in Nevada,
the Buenaventura River.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Capin You ain't got no ron.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
The river has never been surveyed, but no one's even
sure where it is. Well, it's on map, yeah, but
every map is different. We wouldn't have food enough, Oh
Buffalo dear. We'd find food and travel light.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
The winter's coming.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
We'll be in the river country before then, flow through
a valley, mild climate even in winter.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Why ought to have my skull examined for even wis
travel light.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
You said, Captain, will leave the heavy equipment about the
hearts are gone, Captain, we'll take that. December tenth, excitement
at the prospect of locating the Buenaventura. We're pushing through
a hill country where no white men have ever been before.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
The Indians seem hostile everywhere. Smoke signals we've hauled it.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
We'll stand precious little chance to where.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
If we could discourage them.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
They might be kind of hard to discourage. Kevin, they're coming.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Look down on hill.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Kevin, see him unhitched. The hours they're loaded. Hurry up,
Victory years.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I'll hit some mule for gun rugg a head load
the house.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Ready.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
The males get ready to fight. Fire stop after before
they're running for their lives.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Happen. This is the first time I ever took a
like into that their gun.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
January third, We move across black rock Jesip plant, heavy
fog and the cold.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Sure can't see him more in a few yards in
any direction, well at least whidden from the Indians. January fifteenth,
Fine forests. You must be coming to the Beneventura River.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Carson has gone ahead looking for beaver signs that'll tell
us we're close to a river flowing seawards.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
All the men are looking forward to seeing the river.
It'll be a moment of triumph for all of us.
January sixteenth. The river must be in hand, not in
one ravine a valley, then in the next.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
We're close by.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
January seventeenth.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
The river is somewhere in this country. We've tried all directions.
In the next ravine perhaps or the next.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
January eighteenth, where is it.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
No sign of the river, no sign of beaver tracks.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
To indicate where it could be.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
Where there is no wena venture another legend, another legend
like the jungle islands in the South Lake.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Oh, these foods. You might have missed the river.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
No, it doesn't exist.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
I reckon, we came a long way for nothing. I
wouldn't say that we found there's no such river. Now
we know what.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Now, Now we're low on food. We can't go back.
We've come too far. We'll camp in California, just on
the other side of these mountains.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
And it's late in the air. But hey, we can
drive if we can find a pass.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
We must find a past captain, all right, we set off.
We'll right across the sierras. We have no choice.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Mountains nine to fifteen thousand feet high. They keep a
record of the days. We've shot a few birds.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
But today we see no sign of any.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Silence, the moaning silence of the Sierra Nevada, snow hundred
feet deep in places. The gun has been left behind,
and we go on a hunger, hunger and frozen binds.
(10:35):
Starvation is very name.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Now what one of the men?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Day count? Three months? Snow so soft? Come beheld, Let
me sleep, let me sleeter now later.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
No, No, I'm hungry. I can just sleep. I don't
care so much. Give me food, Give me food. I
want food. We better strap into a saddle cab. Help me.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
Well, we've eaten most of our clothing, leather, jackets, foot gear,
(11:29):
half naked, now living skeletons frozen, and we stare at
each other looking for signs of madness.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
We stumbled our stand still. How much can men stand?
Dear God?
Speaker 9 (11:49):
How much more? Cap'n Kevin? Yeh, yes, see something heaven?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
That's what I saw?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Something h good cars.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
There is suc some MutS people.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
There in the Sierra wilderness.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
A tiny village, friendly Indians employed by a white man
named Sutter. On March sixth, Fremont made his way into
Sutter's boat in the Sacramento Valley.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
For the first time an accurate survey had been made
on the country from Kansas to Oregon. From the column,
they are down through the Sierras into California. As America
entered yet another era of expansion, new stage grew up
in the great mountain regions as the covered wagons rolled westward,
ever westward, on to Monterey. This has been the eighth
(13:28):
chapter in the Story of the American Nation, brought to
you by the Ladies Auxiliary to the veterans of Foreign Wars.
Next week, another story to make you proud of this
great country of ours, as we follow
Speaker 4 (13:47):
The American Trail.
Chapter eight On to Monterey.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
August twenty fifth, eighteen forty three, Utah Territory, Red yellow
blue cliffs rise up on all sides, sunset fierce barbaric hospital.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
The man is Captain John Fremont. The government wants a
root survey that will connect the United States with the
Oregon Country. Fremont is the man for the job. Four
months ago he left Kansas. He is west of the
Rocky Mountains. Now fifteen men with him, one howitzer gun
(00:49):
and a hunter named Corson.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
You're working on that diary, Kevin. Yes, I'll lead these
notes and I get back to Washington.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I sort of keep thinking about Broken Hand. Fitzback, He's
all right, Card, Maybe we should have all stayed together.
By the time we get to the Oregon Country, Broken
Hand will be there waiting for us. You'll most likely
get the Fort Hall before we do. That was no coyote, Captain, Indians, Dunson,
(01:18):
what is it?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I ain't sure, sir. You see something. I just ain't sure,
Captain free Mon. I'll take a look around, Captain, I
get some sleep.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Indians won't attack if they know we're on the watch
for them.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
September eight, one week south of soda springs, searching for
the great Salt Lake. Something else, something I can't even
talk to Carson about.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Not yet.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Our final destination should be the Columbia River. The job
will be done yet, I know I must go on
from there. Well, yeah, that can wait.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Our parties even smaller. I've sent some men on the
fort Hall for supplies. The rest of us are in marshlands,
surrounded by mountains.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Real solely around here, Kevin.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yeah, I'm breathing it. I feel in my stomach, which
you're kind of thirsty. Hey, guys, and your face is
covered with dogs.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
You've been away it off.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Marshlands glisten with soft We've written the higher ground.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
An ocean, an ocean in the middle of the desert,
all the way to the horizon, further than you can
see Soft Lake. Hey them, Milin's out there, hook at
the jungle.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Life you reckon anything lives on annimals.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Carson, Somemow will take the rubber boat out. We'll explore
the lad Yeah, it's a real good thing.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
There's only four of us in this here boat. Huh.
It sprung half a dozen leagues, Garson, something wrong?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Can the island you see anything on coust't take these glasses.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Have a look.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
A them.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I don't see nothing but a rock, No trees, no
nothing at all, just bearing rock, nothing but rock.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Have to free up with chicken water. Sure, I can't
start bailing. I expected to see so much on that island.
Keep bailing on. This boat's gonna see all right.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Now, come on, we're almost shallow water. Now we'll be
aving the way to shore.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Real wrong out here at Capitol, guys in ours are
most likely the first human voice is to break the
silence of the siland in a.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Million years it won't surprise me.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, I'll just stay here the night until we can't
touch the boat out.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Oh yeah, I won't have to bother none about Indians Tonight.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
In the morning, I can draw a map of the
lake that I can see of it from here, and
we'll push on the Port Hall September fifteenth, Oregon Trail.
(04:52):
The men I sent on the Fort Hall of Return brokenhand.
Fitzpatrick is with.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Him, Captain, my boy, we couldn't bring much food. You
don't a scarce commodity up at Port Hall.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
How's that?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Well, it's the settler's moving into the Oregon country just
about cleaning up.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
All the food at the fort. Hey, I reckon we
can get enough to see us to the Columbia River.
Broken hands. It's quite a problem.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Kit.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Well, we don't all have to go to the Columbia.
I think we can send some of the men home.
As a matter of fact, October twenty eighth, they camp
beside the Dallas of the Columbia River.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Rock walls, overlook, deep dark whirlpools.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
No sound, no foam, no ribons.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Inaccurate map has been charted from Kansas to the Oregon Country. Still,
the dream I've had for many weeks stays with me,
the great unknown country to the solid year.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
What are you thinking about, cap?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I was thinking of somewhere in the Sierra Nevada, in Nevada,
the Buenaventura River.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Capin You ain't got no ron.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
The river has never been surveyed, but no one's even
sure where it is. Well, it's on map, yeah, but
every map is different. We wouldn't have food enough, Oh
Buffalo dear. We'd find food and travel light.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
The winter's coming.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
We'll be in the river country before then, flow through
a valley, mild climate even in winter.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Why ought to have my skull examined for even wis
travel light.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
You said, Captain, will leave the heavy equipment about the
hearts are gone, Captain, we'll take that. December tenth, excitement
at the prospect of locating the Buenaventura. We're pushing through
a hill country where no white men have ever been before.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
The Indians seem hostile everywhere. Smoke signals we've hauled it.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
We'll stand precious little chance to where.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
If we could discourage them.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
They might be kind of hard to discourage. Kevin, they're coming.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Look down on hill.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Kevin, see him unhitched. The hours they're loaded. Hurry up,
Victory years.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I'll hit some mule for gun rugg a head load
the house.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Ready.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
The males get ready to fight. Fire stop after before
they're running for their lives.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Happen. This is the first time I ever took a
like into that their gun.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
January third, We move across black rock Jesip plant, heavy
fog and the cold.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Sure can't see him more in a few yards in
any direction, well at least whidden from the Indians. January fifteenth,
Fine forests. You must be coming to the Beneventura River.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Carson has gone ahead looking for beaver signs that'll tell
us we're close to a river flowing seawards.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
All the men are looking forward to seeing the river.
It'll be a moment of triumph for all of us.
January sixteenth. The river must be in hand, not in
one ravine a valley, then in the next.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
We're close by.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
January seventeenth.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
The river is somewhere in this country. We've tried all directions.
In the next ravine perhaps or the next.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
January eighteenth, where is it.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
No sign of the river, no sign of beaver tracks.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
To indicate where it could be.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
Where there is no wena venture another legend, another legend
like the jungle islands in the South Lake.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Oh, these foods. You might have missed the river.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
No, it doesn't exist.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
I reckon, we came a long way for nothing. I
wouldn't say that we found there's no such river. Now
we know what.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Now, Now we're low on food. We can't go back.
We've come too far. We'll camp in California, just on
the other side of these mountains.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
And it's late in the air. But hey, we can
drive if we can find a pass.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
We must find a past captain, all right, we set off.
We'll right across the sierras. We have no choice.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Mountains nine to fifteen thousand feet high. They keep a
record of the days. We've shot a few birds.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
But today we see no sign of any.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Silence, the moaning silence of the Sierra Nevada, snow hundred
feet deep in places. The gun has been left behind,
and we go on a hunger, hunger and frozen binds.
(10:35):
Starvation is very name.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Now what one of the men?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Day count? Three months? Snow so soft? Come beheld, Let
me sleep, let me sleeter now later.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
No, No, I'm hungry. I can just sleep. I don't
care so much. Give me food, Give me food. I
want food. We better strap into a saddle cab. Help me.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
Well, we've eaten most of our clothing, leather, jackets, foot gear,
(11:29):
half naked, now living skeletons frozen, and we stare at
each other looking for signs of madness.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
We stumbled our stand still. How much can men stand?
Dear God?
Speaker 9 (11:49):
How much more? Cap'n Kevin? Yeh, yes, see something heaven?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
That's what I saw?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Something h good cars.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
There is suc some MutS people.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
There in the Sierra wilderness.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
A tiny village, friendly Indians employed by a white man
named Sutter. On March sixth, Fremont made his way into
Sutter's boat in the Sacramento Valley.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
For the first time an accurate survey had been made
on the country from Kansas to Oregon. From the column,
they are down through the Sierras into California. As America
entered yet another era of expansion, new stage grew up
in the great mountain regions as the covered wagons rolled westward,
ever westward, on to Monterey. This has been the eighth
(13:28):
chapter in the Story of the American Nation, brought to
you by the Ladies Auxiliary to the veterans of Foreign Wars.
Next week, another story to make you proud of this
great country of ours, as we follow
Speaker 4 (13:47):
The American Trail.
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